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HistoryJul 14, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

K16965 : bzip2 vulnerabilities CVE-2005-0953 and CVE-2005-1260

2015-07-1400:00:00
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AI Score

5.9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.013

Percentile

86.1%

Security Advisory Description

Race condition in bzip2 1.0.2 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by bzip2 after the decompression is complete.

bzip2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hard drive consumption) via a crafted bzip2 file that causes an infinite loop (a.k.a “decompression bomb”).

Impact

None. F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.